ROSALES, Pangasinan?Trouble is not yet over for the San Roque Power Corp. (SRPC) and the National Power Corp. (Napocor) a year after the San Roque Dam released massive amounts of excess water that flooded more than 30 towns and cities in eastern and central Pangasinan.

Officials of the Goldon Agritec Products Inc., a fertilizer company based in Carmen village along the Agno River, on Tuesday filed a P12.9-million damage suit against the two companies to seek compensation when floods in October 2009 destroyed the firm?s products.

Named in the suit were Napocor president and chief executive officer Froilan Tampinco, SRPC president and CEO Ryukichi Kawaguchi, SRPC vice president for corporate social responsibility Tommy Valdez, and Alex Palada, flood operation manager of Napocor.

Napocor owns the San Roque Dam and spillway, while the SRPC owns and operates its power generating facilities.

The case was the second against the two companies. The first was filed by a group of Pangasinan lawyers in December 2009.

Valdez said he would wait for a copy of the complaint before he answers any query. ?But since the case was filed in court, we will answer in court, not in the media,? he said.

Rosendo So, Goldon Agritec representative, said a series of damage suits would be filed against Napocor and SRPC in the coming weeks by businessmen and farmers from Pangasinan.

?We wanted to file a class suit, but we decided to file separate cases because we have different products that were damaged [by floods]. For instance, a miller lost his rice stocks, a piggery owner lost all his hogs and farmers lost their palay,? So said.

The party-list group Abono, which So chairs, will help farmers file cases. At least 250 farmers have signified their intention to join the suit, So said.

He said farmers and businessmen were not able to immediately file cases against the dam operators because they were waiting for the results of the inquiry started by the House of Representatives last year.

?But we cannot wait anymore,? he said.

Another factor that delayed the filing of cases was the high cost of the filing fee. Goldon Agritec, he said, paid P274,450 for the damage suit.

Goldon Agritec accused dam operators of negligence when they ordered the sudden release of massive amounts of water as Typhoon ?Pepeng? dumped heavy and continuous rains over Northern Luzon in October.

?The dam operators negligently and unjustifiably failed to calibrate the release of water from the dam,? its complaint said.